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This project is helping to restore Caistor's heritage by improving the town's aesthetic appeal and its economic prosperity.

Achievements

Secured £1.8m investment in town center and surrounding area
The refurbishment of derelict buildings with historic interest
Created new business and job opportunities

Project contact

Roger Wilde
Economic Regeneration Team Leader
The Guildhall
Caskgate Street
Gainsborough
DN21 2DH

T: 01427 676 626
E: roger.wilde@westlindsey.gov.uk

Caistor Townscape Heritage Initiative

The Caistor Townscape Heritage Grant Scheme will work in partnership to deliver English Heritage's THI by offering local partnerships and regeneration agencies grants to bring derelict and underused buildings back into use (both socially and economically). As well as reinstating Caistor"s Georgian Market Square, it will help reverse the town’s decline making it more economically prosperous.

The project is needed to restore the towns’ market place in order to encourage investment in the town, creating jobs and making use of derelict and unused buildings.

Project aims:

Preserve, restore and enhance the historical architecture and cultural heritage of Caistor
Promote and encourage investment in underused
and neglected historic buildings
Retain and reinforce the local identity and distinctiveness of the historic heart of Caistor

These aims will be achieved through a grant scheme that provides significant amounts of capital funding (up to 90% in eligible cases) to identified property owners in the centre of Caistor.

"The Townscape Heritage Initiative is helping property owners to restore Caistor's heritage in and around the town centre and put back the value in those properties which will be shared by visitors and the community alike. It has without doubt given an economic boost to the town and is helping to restore Caistor to it's former glory as a service centre for the whole of the north eastern part of West Lindsey."

Roy Schofield, Member - Caistor Development Partnership

Project partners:

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